Career Accolades
- ACC All-Academic Team (2026)
As a Sophomore (2026)
- Brooks Wallace Award Watch List
- ACC All-Academic Team
- Started 53 games while batting .272 with 43 runs scored, eight doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 34 RBIs
- Finished 10-for-14 in stolen base attempts
- Slugged .465 with a .391 on-base percentage while drawing 32 walks
- Compiled 16 multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI contests
- Connected for three doubles and four home runs in ACC play
- Hit safely in all but 18 games overall and reached in each of the final 20
- Had a hit in 15 of the last 22 games on the season
- Homered in four straight games from March 22 to March 27
- Went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and a double vs. Nebraska (February 16)
- Drove in four runs and collected a double vs. Nevada (March 11)
- 3-for-5 with three runs scored, a double, a home run and three RBIs vs. Utah Valley (March 22)
- Posted three hits and two RBIs at Virginia Tech (March 29)
- Managed a three-hit game with a run scored, a double and one RBI at Notre Dame (May 2)
- Launched a three-run home run vs. California in the ACC Tournament (May 19)
As a Freshman (2025)
- Baseball America Preseason Top 25 Freshmen (No. 16)
- Perfect Game Preseason Top 75 Freshmen (No. 7)
- Appeared in and started 25 games, batting .270 with 18 runs scored, four doubles, a team-best three triples, one home run and seven RBIs
- Three triples ranked fifth in the ACC, including tops among freshmen
- Slugged .416 with a .320 on-base percentage and went 5-for-7 in stolen bases
- Compiled three multi-hit games and one multi-RBI contest, including a 3-for-3 day with a double and two triples vs. Washington (February 21)
- Hit safely in 19 of his 25 games played, including each of his final seven on the season
- Missed 24 consecutive games due to injury, but returned to the lineup and went 3-for-3 with his first career home run at Santa Clara (May 6)
- Hit .636 with six runs scored, two doubles, two triples and one RBI in a four-game series vs. Washington (February 21-24)
- Scored six runs and drove in five while posting a double in 11 ACC games
- First career hit was a triple and came in his collegiate debut at Cal State Fullerton (February 15)
- Scored three runs while batting 2-for-3 with a double vs. Washington (February 22)
Prior to Stanford
- 2024 graduate of Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, Calif.
- Helped lead his team to a pair of league titles (2021-22)
- Area Codes Underclass Selection (2022)
- States Play MLB Develops Westside Team (2022)
- MLB PDP Pipeline Winter Camps Invite (2022)
- MLB / USA Baseball All-American High School National Team (2023)
- MLB / USA Baseball Player Development Pipeline Invite (2023)
- 2023 Area Codes Games Upperclass participant (Athletics)
- Perfect Game All-American (2023)
- Baseball America All-American (2024)
- Rawlings All-American first team (2024)
- Baseball America 2024 Top 10 Freshman to Campus
- Ranked the No. 2 shortstop in California (fourth overall in state) and seventh-best high school shortstop in the nation (No. 24 overall player) according to Perfect Game
- Played with Alpha Prime Baseball
Personal
- Son of Celeste and Steven Bates
- Has one sibling, Parker
- Grandfather, Jim Bates, played football at Cal
- Born at Stanford Hospital and grew up wanting to be an athlete at Stanford